Jeremy Scott Alexander is the executive assistant to Dr. Michele Goodwin, co-faculty director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law.
Alexander comes from Georgetown University’s School of Medicine, where he worked for the Dean of Medical Education, and has been with Georgetown University for eleven years. Prior to working with the university, he was with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) from 2010 to 2013 as the director of government affairs in Washington, D.C. TMCF is responsible for providing financial and other support to 47 member schools, which include public historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), six law schools, and two medical schools. As one of the lobbyists for TMCF, he worked on defense, education, and global hunger policy issues. Before TMCF, Alexander worked on the Hill with U.S. Representative Yvette D. Clarke of New York as her scheduler from 2009 to 2010. Alexander was also assigned to conduct policy analysis on environmental issues for Representative Clarke.
Alexander also worked as a government relations specialist for the National Court Reporters Association in Vienna, Virginia, from 2006 to 2009. There, he fought for the deaf and hard-of- hearing community, advocated for appropriations for court reporting schools, organized state leadership conferences and Hill Days for the association. During the Clinton administration, Alexander also served in the White House and the U.S. Department of Energy. In addition, he worked for the City of Chicago in the 5th Ward as an assistant to the Alderman. Currently, politically, Alexander serves on the Human Rights Advisory Committee for the City of Salisbury, Maryland. He is on the Wicomico County Democratic Central Committee and is the former president of the Democratic Club of Wicomico County.
Alexander holds a B.A. from Grinnell College (Grinnell, Iowa) in Anthropology, attended the University of London King’s College (London, England) for a program in British Politics and Public Policy, and has an M.A. from DePaul University (Chicago, Illinois) in Interdisciplinary Studies: Medical Anthropology/Public Policy.